Description: -Lynda Morgan builds an intellectual and social history of slave thought about labor and morality, and she traces elements through Reconstruction and the civil rights movement. She concludes her manuscript by connecting this legacy to reparations arguments and apologies for slavery that continue in the present day---Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Lynda J. Morgan, professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, is the author of Emancipation in Virginia's Tobacco Belt, 1850-1870.
Review Quotes: "Offers a refreshing interpretation of the intellectual contributions of enslaved and formerly enslaved blacks and the legacy of their moral economy in the United States."--Journal of Southern History "An informative and provocative book."--Griot "[Morgan's] primary subject is the folk thought regarding ethics that was grounded in the slave's experience, more so than on policies and political outcomes. Slave histories rarely give the voice of slaves such priority."--Choice